He looked humiliated afterwards, you hate to see it
― ogmor, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:47 (four years ago) link
all I can see is subhuman vermin... this long war has taken its toll on me!
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:47 (four years ago) link
(the calz/xyz rhetorical style of screaming and shooting wildly at literally anyone who gets close enough for them to see the whites of the eyes has my full endorsement as a method of coping with the stress of society's incipient collapse, but it can leave onlookers & victims alike unelucidated as to what opinions they actually wish everyone would hold)
Glad I caught on this one gem of a post (usually looking at the last 50). Oh I am so sorry you feel like this sic please post Ian Dunt's opinions on this thread more often I'll try to keep my 'screaming' to myself.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:48 (four years ago) link
hey I endorsed it
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link
I do see people with his politics who can't stand JC. So its something beyond policy. I don't know if that in itself will be enough to keep him from No 10.
― xyzzzz__,
Its true that if Pidcock, Vardy or any other person on the left gets in they too will undergo similar treatment and become mysteriously disliked too....but only to an extent. Its much deeper than policy which huge sections of the electorate dgaf anyway. Its psychological and deep rooted, the fact of the matter is some people don't like geography teachers and university lecturers.
But until his Leicester contract runs out it is what it is
― anvil, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:51 (four years ago) link
me being me I thought he looked kinda beautiful and sad and I would feel a pang of regret watching him mount the scaffold
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:52 (four years ago) link
soon, my friend. Soon.
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 08:55 (four years ago) link
my fav articulated knee-jerk disgust at corbs was nakh (rip) describing him as "shambling fakir/low church preacher"
― ogmor, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:01 (four years ago) link
In my London bubble the people I see disliking Corbyn are:
1. People who think he hasn’t done enough on Brexit or are Corbyn Leave Voter truthers (to which I have always said, that’s bollocks, Ireland/ECJ, long game, bear with him).2. ‘That’s not leadership/we have NO OPPOSITION’ tbh he is not following the leadership model drilled into British people from school onward, it’s a bit more Woodcraft in Corbynworld. These people are never able to nutshell exactly what leadership means to them but often mentioned Yvette Cooper, LOL.3. Jewish people/Islamophobes/hawks who were reluctant to vote for Ed Miliband after he made it party policy in 2014 to recognise Palestinian statehood claims and left then (when Jewish support for Labour nosedived) but a gentile advocating the exact same thing is obvs a raging antisemite who will endanger Jewish people and cares more about The Muslims. 4. Privileged feminists and TERFs banging on about The Brocialists, who say they are now voting LibDem.
― coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:02 (four years ago) link
I thought it was pom/Fred level 'he is Putin's puppet'
Hey Alphie, has it ever occurred to you… that you might be a bully and a troll and a liar?
Give it a rest ffs.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:04 (four years ago) link
removing the whip from 20+ MPs (including churchill's grandson no less!) going down like a bucket of cold sick today - you simply love to see it. makes them look slightly deranged - though have to admire the chutzpah... and only wish JC had been half as ruthless.
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:05 (four years ago) link
That list is growing pom.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:08 (four years ago) link
the list is largely innaccurate bcz you don't read carefully, you can't just liken ppl to fred and not expect pushback
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link
Apols if point already made but I thought the Slouching Mogg picture was a great visual representation of the man’s hypocrisy - had it been anyone else he’d have been on his feet making some long-winded speech of admonishment for the poor form.
That’s on top of his own recent defiance of the whip.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
slouching towards bedlam
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:16 (four years ago) link
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 bookmarkflaglink
They are pals I thought he'd be flattered.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:18 (four years ago) link
Who is he?- went to Eton- went to Oxford- was in Bullingdon- ran London- became Foreign Secretary - was considered great orator, writer & historian- became PM- lost his first vote as PM- eventually got bored with politics.It’s Archibald Primrose, the Earl of Rosebery.— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) September 4, 2019
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:22 (four years ago) link
considered great orator, writer & historian
🤔
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:24 (four years ago) link
the fact of the matter is some people don't like geography teachers and university lecturers.
A relative has a real dislike of McD that when pressed collapses into just 'it's in his eyes, he look untrustworthy' shit osmosed thru negative media spin
― nashwan, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:25 (four years ago) link
"eventually" comes from a careless skim of the wikipedia page i think: rosebery was bored of politics (also bad at it) i think even before he became PM and he was PM for only just over a year before the libs were booted out of power, beginning their great slide to perdition
many of his projects were frustrated by his own party
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:26 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah out in the shires a lot of people think McDonnell is Semtex in human form.
― coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:29 (four years ago) link
My right wing cousin says about McD that the lack of dislike is the real worry ("Wolf in sheep's clothing", "Dangerous operator"), its the fact that he DOESN'T dislike him that really sets the alarm bells off for him. It should be more obvious on a psychological level that he is a future mass murderer and garage stealer, what if people don't realize?
― anvil, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:30 (four years ago) link
My guess would be most people in the UK don’t have an opinion on John McDonnell.
― AlanSmithee, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:39 (four years ago) link
I can't imagine why anyone could have any less than utter unconditional love for McD
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
there is an actor melt who I crossed swords with on a football forum after he said unkind things about McD. The ex-Coronation Street star couldn't articulate what he didn't like about McD, but this was someone who thought Owen Smith "was just the right type of leadership the PLP needs right now".
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:07 (four years ago) link
also this luvvie described the Alan Johnson memoir as "a great read"
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:08 (four years ago) link
bouncing yourself into an election just as the economy is going into recession and real wages are falling. strategic genius
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
92 amendments tabled in the Lords, they are gonna go hard on the filibuster
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
Alan Smithee is correct
These are the percentages of voting age adults, not just the Labour party, who responded "I have not heard of them" to each politician:Barry Gardiner = 87%Angela Rayner = 66%Keir Starmer = 58%John McDonnell = 50%Tom Watson = 49%Emily Thornberry = 49%Shami Chakrabarti = 47%
― gyac, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:11 (four years ago) link
Barry Gardiner = 87%
thank fsck
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:14 (four years ago) link
Tom Tugendhat = 0%
SV to thread
― gyac, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
I have never heard of Tom Watson
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
feeling very seen and shamed that i *know* who all those ppl are tbrr
i shd take up something non-toxic and useful, maybe pokemon
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:18 (four years ago) link
There are obvious similarities
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:19 (four years ago) link
Watson is that steroids guy who bravely brought down the paedo ring, that Kevin Costner movie The Untouchables is based on him
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:20 (four years ago) link
If this the last week or so is a tactical error by Cummings/Johnson, what should they have done differently. If you want to leave on the most definitive terms possible, what was the right move here?
― stet, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:20 (four years ago) link
l-r: johnson, cummingshttps://i.imgur.com/8WwvFwG.jpg
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:21 (four years ago) link
xp how would you get the bants when Big Baz goes off thoughLast night was a gift to memes
I’d like to bring something to Westminster’s attention pic.twitter.com/rkLcFNHfJz— Ireland Simpsons Fans (@iresimpsonsfans) September 3, 2019
pic.twitter.com/m4isdhfa0q— Ireland Simpsons Fans (@iresimpsonsfans) September 4, 2019
pic.twitter.com/zHtff866Pe— Ireland Simpsons Fans (@iresimpsonsfans) September 3, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:22 (four years ago) link
after last night I need a new fav Tory. I'm concerned Tommy Tugz smile is too bland & Dec-ish, but he does apparently speak dari
― ogmor, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
Scottish judge chucked out the "no proragation" case
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
Gina McKee and John Majors still at bat tomorrow tho
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link
Northern Ireland one still on, too, I think?
― coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:26 (four years ago) link
yesterday the FT said Sobez had one with Jess Phillips as well?
― ogmor, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:29 (four years ago) link
I've lost track of which one's which tbh
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:31 (four years ago) link
Sleepwalking into disaster pic.twitter.com/C06GRR4H1O— cyriak harris (@cyriakharris) September 4, 2019
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link
jacob rees-qwop
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:34 (four years ago) link
cyriak :D
― imago, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:36 (four years ago) link
The JRM picture says more than a thousand words. But these are some sweet words imo:
Rees-Mogg's 'arrogant' speech cost government four extra vote, says Tory rebelTurning back to Jacob Rees-Mogg, it has emerged that he single-handedly managed to push the size of the rebellion last night over the 20 mark. In an interview with the Today programme’s Ross Hawkins, Guto Bebb, one of the most prominent rebels, said that Rees-Mogg’s speech helped to persuade four MPs to join him in voting against the government. Bebb said:There were at least four individuals who were still doubtful who changed their position to being supportive and voting with us on the back of Jacob’s performance. He was deemed to be arrogant, out of touch and I think the way in which he treated some of the interventions was a red rag to bull in many cases.
Turning back to Jacob Rees-Mogg, it has emerged that he single-handedly managed to push the size of the rebellion last night over the 20 mark. In an interview with the Today programme’s Ross Hawkins, Guto Bebb, one of the most prominent rebels, said that Rees-Mogg’s speech helped to persuade four MPs to join him in voting against the government. Bebb said:
There were at least four individuals who were still doubtful who changed their position to being supportive and voting with us on the back of Jacob’s performance. He was deemed to be arrogant, out of touch and I think the way in which he treated some of the interventions was a red rag to bull in many cases.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:37 (four years ago) link
Philip Lee said he quit cos of the way JRM dismissed the doctor worried about no deal
― gyac, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 10:39 (four years ago) link